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QUETHING
Definition of QUETHING
Wiktionary has no entry for QUETHING itself. This is its base word, QUETH.
noun
Speech, talk.
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Where it comes from
The origin recorded for QUETH.
From Middle English cweth, queth, queye (mistake), related to the verb quethe and bequeath, from Old English cweþan, from Proto-Germanic *kweþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“to say, speak”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
QUETHING in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 59, 18 July 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 63 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 59, 18 July 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
QUETHING starts with Q and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read EGHINQTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram. It uses Q - among the least common letters in written English.
Also seen on Day 59
Could you have found QUETHING?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 59 - and most players walked straight past it.
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